"bomb" in seven languages
Meaningbomb
Spanish
bomba
/ˈbomba/
fem.borrowed · Italian bomba
Also a pump: bomba de agua.
French
bombe
/bɔ̃b/
fem.borrowed · Italian bomba
Italian
bomba
/ˈbomba/
fem.learned
Portuguese
bomba
/ˈbõbɐ/
fem.borrowed · Italian bomba
Romanian
bombă
/ˈbombə/
fem.borrowed · French bombe
Catalan
bomba
/ˈbombə/
fem.borrowed · Italian bomba
English
bomb
/bɑm/
from Latin/French · French bombe, from Italian bomba
English → ItalianbombbombaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
BOMBUM (Greek bómbos)‘booming, buzzing’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
An imitative word: Greek bómbos was a deep hum. Italian made it the name of an exploding shell, and the other languages took it from there.
English relatives: bombard, bombastic, boom
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In a sentence
- esLa bomba no explotó.
- frLa bombe n'a pas explosé.
- itLa bomba non è esplosa.
- ptA bomba não explodiu.
- roBomba nu a explodat.
- caLa bomba no va esclatar.
- enThe bomb didn't explode.
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